Two construction workers die in a single day

A 26-year-old construction worker fell to his death in Queens on Tuesday just hours after an earlier fatal accident in Manhattan.

The worker was renovating a bathroom and other parts of a co-op unit on the sixth floor of 62-98 Saunders St. in Rego Park when he fell out of a window, according to the city’s Department of Buildings, which noted that the work was being done without a permit. Despite that, the DOB has declared it an official construction death. The owner of the unit was issued violations for doing unsanctioned renovations and failing to safeguard the workers.

The man, John Davie, was working with his father and within sight of his mother when the accident occurred, according to a report in the Daily News. Both parents witnessed the fatal plunge and were taken away by ambulance.

Hours earlier in Manhattan, a 33-year-old man named Ju Cong Wu fell nine stories down an elevator shaft while working on a hotel project at 111 East 24th St., which is being developed by Sam Chang's McSam Hotel Group. It is the second death to occur on a McSam project in the last five years.

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